Good nutrition can help lower people’s risk for many chronic diseases, including heart disease, stroke, some cancers, diabetes and osteoporosis.

Health care of the future will focus on achieving a degree of WELLNESS prior to the development of disease and/or symptoms. The practice of waiting until there is a problem has proven to be an ineffective approach to obtaining health. Health care costs are at a record high of $1.7 trillion with no signs of decreasing. The average cost of annual health care spending is over $5,000 per person and with dependents almost $10,000.

In today’s busy world, traditional diets featuring grains and vegetables are giving way to meals that are more convenient but high in fat and sugar. Obesity has reached epidemic proportions across the nation. By 2010, some have predicted that the root causes of the obesity epidemic, poor nutrition and physical inactivity, will be among the leading underlying causes of preventable deaths in the U.S.

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• Four-color 18x24 format
• Dispels myths about good nutrition
• Offers facts about eating for a healthy life
• Laminated for durability and long life